Professor
Interesting waltz through American political History.
Regarding this paragraph:
"As for Illinois, it has become a Republican myth that Mayor Richard J. Daley stole the 1960 vote for JFK, with the false implication that Nixon would otherwise have won. Kennedy wound up with 303 electoral votes and would have had 276 and a majority without it. Forty years ago, as I pointed out in The Road to Dallas, a political scientist named Kallina effectively debunked that myth with a very careful analysis of the Cook County vote. What I realized watching the broadcast was that the sequence of events during the night did not support that myth either, and indeed suggested that if anyone was manipulating the vote late at night it was downstate Republicans. When CBS signed off around 5:00 AM that night, the count showed JFK ahead by 101,000 votes. As it turned out, Nixon won 55 percent of the 877,000 votes that remained to be counted--most of them downstate--and the margin narrowed to just under 9,000 votes."
Here's the real story behind the Daley myth:
The teamsters, and the Mob, both, not just in Illinois, or specifically in Chicago, delivered victory to Kennedy, for their own patronage reasons.
That is also why both John, and his truly clueless brother Bobby, were killed when they promptly betrayed in office both the mob and the Teamsters.
If you read Real Lace, you will learn that the Kennedys were pathological betrayers tantamount to a genetic defect.
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